What advice would you give to somebody who feels very passionate and purposed about a project that they're creating, but they feel very bogged down by constraints?

Well, they have to just remove the constraints.

I think filmmakers today need to get very hip to AI tools.

It's why we built Arcana to begin with, to lower the barrier to entry.

And I've been quoted saying this many, many times, but the only barrier to creativity today should be passion, not price.

And because there are so many things available at your fingertips that you can use.

You know, I just made a short film.

How do you balance ambition with being content in everyday life?

Um, when you say artist-driven AI, what does that mean?

Artist-driven AI means human first.

So there's a big misconception about AI, and I think that when the acronym showed up, everyone, especially in Hollywood, just kinda dug their heads into the sand and said, "No, no, no." And historically with new tech, we generally get scared or we, you know, go operate from fear.

Artist-driven I- AI says it's like humans to the power of AI.

So everything starts with human development, human written screenplays, human creativity, and AI tools to be used, as I said, just as a tool set.

There's no magic button that you press and all of a sudden, poof, you have a movie.

It still takes hundreds, thousands of hours of work, as creativity does.

Can you walk me through how your tool elevated the visuals here?

And how did that, did that m- make you question it at times and think, "Should I be doing this?" Or was it, I know like you said, y- you had to, this was the way forward, but was there a time when you thought, "Ah, but should this be me?"

me?"Um, there were times where I thought I wasn't the right, if I'm gonna be very honest, where I wasn't the right person just because I wasn't versed in tech.

But I learned very quickly, you know, you have to just surround yourself with people.

It's just like a production.

You have to surround yourself with people that are way smarter than you are.

Mm.

You know? And that's just how to be successful in anything, I think.

Mm.